Best OSX System Version for Music Production

Discussion in 'Mac / Hackintosh' started by Maduka, Aug 1, 2014.

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  1. Pm5

    Pm5 Ultrasonic

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    You definitely don't need to purge anything... RAM isn't a harddrive, there's no need for your OS to "empty" it after use!
    Why doesn't it set this chunks of memory as free? Because it's CPU consuming , and it's useless.
    Even if it's not free, it's still available for write.

    12Gb is a lot of RAM, the bottleneck is certainly elsewhere.

    You didn't say much about your setup.
    Do you use your DAW as 32bit or 64? With some extensive samplers (string/piano libraries) it can be a limit.

    ps : Memory cleaners are placebos. it does make cool metrics though. But any modern OS do that just fine on its own.

    ps2 : I use 10.6.8 on my laptop, it's much less CPU intensive 10.9
     
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  2. PDS

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    Can't agreed more , the very best (32 bits only ofc),useb on mac book (very old) and hackintosh ,best OSX to do music :)
     
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